linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] regmap: Check if a register is writable instead of readable in regcache

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Message-ID: <4EC3EFB3.9080205@metafoo.de>
Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:15:31 +0100
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
CC:	Dimitris Papastamos <dp@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@...log.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	device-drivers-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org, drivers@...log.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] regmap: Check if a register is writable instead of
 readable in regcache_read

On 11/16/2011 06:12 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:09:06PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 11/16/2011 05:56 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> No, really - just do something legible and robust.  For example, teach
>>> regmap_readable() about the cache.
> 
>> Doesn't make much sense. We call regmap_readable from regcache_read, which
>> is only called if we use a cache. So if we let regmap_readable return true
>> in case we use a cache it will always be true in regcache_read and we can
>> drop the check entirely.
> 
> We should at least check that we actually have a cached value there -
> the cache is sparse after all.

That's what the cache already does today, you recently change the rbtree
implementation to return -ENOENT if there is no cached value.
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